hey, i'mjulia with the catch up. a 14—year—old girl and a coach driver have died after their school bus overturned on the m53 in merseyside. police say that 58 people were involved. a 14—year—old boy also suffered life—changing injuries. pupils at the schools are getting special support. some other stories now from sunday. a new law will ban shops and takeaways from selling single—use plastic like cutlery and polystyrene cups. the thing is, some businesses are saying they have no idea about the ban, and haven't prepared at all. facing financial stress, more than half of uni students are balancing their studies with paid jobs. the higher education policy institute, which did the research, is worried it makes inequalities between students worse.

people born using sperm or egg donors in the uk who turn 18 after sunday will now be able to find out who their donor is, because of a law from 2005. matthew and phoebe were conceived via sperm donor. they've known since they were two, but only the bare minimum. his height. his, like, build. eye colour, hair colour, age, some of his hobbies. so when we have a conversation at home, he's usually referred to as the colombian guy orjust... "other dad". and we'll leave you with 10 seconds of pioneering pipes. yes, thanks to her tiktok fame, royal albert hall organist anna lapwood has given the instrument a whole new fanbase, and now she's releasing an album. you're all caught up now. see you.

voice-over: this is bbc news. we'll have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour, straight after this programme. as the summer draws to a close has ukraine made the progress that people had hoped for? our world has secured unique access to one ukrainian unit to find out. loud bang. as the country beds in for the long war while also trying to come to terms with profound trauma and loss, what impact is it having on ukrainian attitudes towards their enemy? we hear how the experience of the long war is dividing families...

..and how a hardening of attitudes make some think that the only possible victory will be one secured on the battlefield. i just want it to stop and for our... ..neighbours to go away. this is the face of battle, modern war in ukraine. a grenade attached to a commercially made drone before being sent on its way. these ukrainian soldiers from the army's 24th mechanized brigade allowed us rare access to a position several hundred metres from their enemy as they hunted them.

now they're stepping up the accuracy of their attacks... drone whirs ..with custom made fpv, or first person view drones. we are aiming for big guns like automated grenade launcher and sp6. self—propelled guns. yeah, yeah, yes. self—propelled gun, something like that. and then comes in the lower priorities, so, just regular troops. two years ago, would you have ever imagined you would be doing this? oh, no, no. god's sake, no. but what can we do? we can only fight and protect our land. i just want it to stop and for our... ..neighbours to go away. 52nd year, but looks like new. it's like second world war.

hey! we watched as the 24th brigade's drone company armed a variety of munitions ready to launch at the russians, trying to raise the pain level. they gave us clips of that day's strikes using air drop munitions... ..and then flying their fpv drones into trenches and windows to kill those taking cover... ..butjust as these men are hunters, they're also being hunted. the 24th brigade artillery often relies on drones to find its targets — but that works in reverse, too, and the guns have to be well camouflaged because the russians are hunting them. radio chatter the ukrainian battery commander is given the go—ahead

to engage his target. the 152mm howitzer is loaded and its barrel trained onto the right bearing and elevation. loud bang no sooner is the shell on its way than we're told to get away from the gun position as soon as we can. we get back to our vehicle... so let's go. yeah. engine turns over ..past locals apparently oblivious to the fact a russian shell will soon be heading back. where was the incoming? there, look, smoke. oh, yeah, see the smoke. it explodes about 300 metres from us. we've had a small taste of the stress these soldiers have to put up with for months,

for the battle in this part of the donbas is largely about long range killing with artillery. at the brigade casualty clearing station, a soldier's been brought in. the medics do their survey, but its apparent that he isn't physically injured. it's described as a panic attack following an artillery bombardment. he's sedated and the doctors grow nervous that our presence might attract interest to this place. we've had to leave the medical centre because the doctors were worried that our presence at the medical centre might make it a target. loud bang at the gun position, meanwhile, it's time to reload. this howitzer is nicknamed babushka by its crew

because it's getting on a bit and the shells we saw were made a0 years ago — and just as the demands of this conflict mean all serviceable weapons must be pressed into action... soldiers converse ..so the gun commander is a 52—year—old trained to do this decades ago for the soviet army, who volunteered to serve again. what was your family's reaction when you went to serve? did they say, forgive me, "you're too old. "let other people do it." how did people react? people sing this is how the people of yavoriv showed their grief for one

of their lost sons. it's a garrison town almost as far west as you can go in ukraine, almost as far from the front as it's possible to be — and yet the raw emotion of this war and its consequences could not be more stark. the family of volodymyr kamuz, an army intelligence officer, were honoured by their community, no matter that he died soon after visiting the front rather than falling in combat. dozens of its sons have been killed in battles since the russian invasion and they mostly belong to the brigade based here before this all began and in which volodymyr started his army career. pretty much every house in this street in yavoriv has been affected by the war and service with the 24th brigade. the soldier killed back there, another seriously wounded.

in this house, three members of the family are serving at the front. another lightly wounded two houses on — and in this place where i'm going, her husband is missing in action. lydia firchuk works in the brigade canteen. her husband, serhii, has been missing since march 2022. the idea that he's not coming back is too much to bear.

chicken clucks do you have any hope in this situation or have you lost hope now of seeing him again? serhii's comrades in the 24th brigade suggested he may have been captured by the russians, but subsequent evidence pointed towards him having died. woman wails for the family of volodymyr kamuz, carried

to the cemetery on the outskirts of yavoriv, there is at least the painful certainty of knowing what happened and having a place to grieve — and being a colonel, he was given a full military send—off... singing ..but in this time of national crisis, which has inflicted such profound loss on the ukrainian people, the grief that's followed has been enormous, and that, for many, has been difficult to process. this cemetery on the outskirts of lviv is one of the many where the 24th�*s fallen have been laid to rest. we counted dozens adorned with the brigade's emblem among the 2,000—plus graves here. natalia nezhura visits often, bringing fresh flowers to her brother, andrii.

she's wracked with regret that all of her attempts to save him failed. like so many ukrainians, natalia has been hardened by the pain and loss endured during this conflict — but asking her how the war ends, i was shocked by the answer.

siren wails as we filmed, sirens warned of another possible strike on lviv. that's one more reason why so many ukrainians have concluded there can be no rest for living or dead until the war is won. from many different battles and units. when we visited, those being treated were casualties of this summer's fighting in the south and east of ukraine.

this is one of ukraine's main centres for war wounded. given the pain and trauma that these men have been through, it was remarkable to see the upbeat way this session was run. laughter. and among the patients' teasing and banter, thoughts, too, about whether they might play any further part in the war and how theirfamilies might treat them. do you have the support of your family to go back or do they try to persuade you maybe not to go back

before they can go to the front, there are weeks of drills. gunfire. we watched a mixture of new conscripts... gunfire.

..and wounded who are being returned to combat, being put through their paces. this training ground at yavoriv, near the polish border, is a long way from the realfight... shouting and gunfire. ..but it's the nearest the 24th brigade has to a home town. in 2021, the 24th brigade had around 2,000 soldiers. volunteers and conscripts have flowed in forming new battalions and boosting the brigade strength to around 7,000. that more than trebling of numbers matches what's happened to the ukrainian army as a whole — and all the while, casualties have had to be replaced too. so, thousands of troops have been fed through to the brigade.

we saw quite a few older men here. and there's also been a debate in ukraine about those who've dodged the call—up and where the willingness —— who've dodged the call—up and whether willingness to fight is diminishing. but for the wounded we spoke to, there's still a determination to serve. denys lost part of his hand in shelling but, after months of treatment, he wants to get back to his mates in the brigade. i have problems with middle fingers. medicine tried to save this finger. take bones from here. but it's don't work and it's cut. but it's ok. it's not my head. not my — any organs. vital organs. how long were you in hospital, then? 0h, from february to the may. four months — three months.

and do you have to go back to the unit? or do you want to go back? i want to go back. but this finger have very bad working. and when it's make a little better, i go to the donbas. this area around the villages of toretsk and new york has been the scene of fighting since russia began its intervention in the donbas in 2014. jimmy commands a company that's about 100 soldiers. it's currently holding a section of the front line and he offered to take us up to the trenches. while there has recently been some ukrainian progress not far away near bakhmut, the front line here has been stable for a long time. we'd be heading to trenches just a few hundred metres from russian lines.

some airburst shells landed not far away soon after we set off. they may have been aiming at ukrainian soldiers coming back from the trenches but they're so used to sporadic shelling that they stopped to pick figs. and, happily, the weather was on our side. as we got closer to what they call the zero line, the path through minefields got narrower and narrower. we went as far as we could go, to where they've pushed the positions forward. jimmy's survived multiple wounds, leading the men to think he's got a charmed life.

distant explosions. he showed us to a place where we found soldiers busy trying to improve the protection offered by their trenches. the rain was falling, reminding everyone that autumn is coming. with the prospect of staying put here and the summer offensive having come and gone without delivering a decisive result.

the men have been conscripted or volunteered for the duration. they have no idea when they'll go home. upbeat music plays. away from the trenches, army officers trying to keep spirits up in imaginative ways. there was a conjurer. and a mind—reader, too, taking the men's minds off their daily reality — for a couple of hours, at least. cheering and applause. woman sings. top of the bill was singer danielle zayushkina... ..whose lyrics about a faithful lover awaiting their return transported the soldiers to a happier place.

applause. but when the performances were over... the buses pulled up... and the troops returned once again towards the battle. out on the front line, jimmy took us back from his forward positions. we were happy for a lift — and no matter the state of the transport. the lines may not have changed much in this area during years of fighting butjimmy reckons the invasion has helped them win another battle — that for open—ended support from the ukrainian public.

the transformation of attitudes is a result of national mobilisation, in which the 24th brigade simply mirrors what's happened in the wider army. if peace requires difficult compromises, it could be hard to sell to these soldiers. hello. we may be officially into autumn but a little dose of summer on the way for some

of us over the next few days — notjust here in the uk, but widely across europe. and, in fact, temperatures are expected to reach the 30s in spain, france, in the uk — even mid 20s expected in the south in the days ahead. now, at the moment, there is a little weather front heading our way. that is going to bring a bit of a mixed bag for some of us. now, the early hours will be clear, generally speaking, across most of the country and it will be quite a nippy morning — in fact, in the glens of scotland, it could be around four degrees, but i think for most of us, in the range of around 7—10 celsius. so, it starts off quite sunny and bright, at the very least, for most of us but out towards the west, this rain crosses ireland and you can see thickening cloud there from the south—west across wales, the irish sea, northern ireland and into south—western scotland so here, a very different picture to other parts of the country. outbreaks of rain, at times heavy, in belfast and also gusty winds around coasts. the north of scotland, most of the north sea coast and further south, the weather's looking fine, sunny.

i think sunshine for plymouth, for the isle of wight and also for london, where highs will reach 20 celsius. now, notice that rain never reaches the south. it veers off towards the north and with that also comes relatively humid air to the south of that weather front, and that humid and also quite warm air will spread across many parts of the country. that means that early in the morning on sunday, it will be very warm. look at that — i6, 17 degrees celsius at eight o'clock in the south. now, there will be a little bit of rain around in the morning, i think across parts of wales and the midlands, but eventually, the sun should come out in most areas — and we're talking about the mid 20s in the south—east on sunday. a little bit fresher in scotland and northern ireland here of around 16 or 17 celsius. now, the outlook for the rest of europe shows a large area of high pressure building across the continent. that's basically going to allow the warm air to spread all the way to eastern parts of europe. there'll be a bit of a blip because this weather front will introduce temporarily some slightly fresher air to some

parts of europe but i think overall, it's going to stay on the warm side. let's have a look at a snapshot, then, for some of our cities into the week ahead and, generally speaking, really quite warm.

live from london, this is bbc news. the us government edges towards shutdown as members of congress fail to reach an agreement on spending.

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